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Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Stigmatization in Danish Patients with Liver Disease by Nadja Østberg; Birgitte Gade Jacobsen; Mette Munk Lauridsen; Lea Ladegaard Grønkjær is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
The mental health of patients with liver diseases is often overlooked when assessing their overall health and planning care and treatment. The aim of this study was to assess anxiety, depression, hopelessness, quality of life, and the perception of stigmatization in a large cohort of patients with chronic liver disease of different aetiology and severity, as well as to identify predictors associated with mental health disorders. A total of 340 patients completed a survey assessing mental health using the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Major Depression Inventory. Quality of life was measured with the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire and the European Quality-of-Life visual analogue scale. To assess stigmatization, validated questions from the Danish Nationwide Survey of Patient Experiences were used. Predictors associated with anxiety, hopelessness, and depression were analysed using univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses. Overall, 15% of the patients had moderate or severe anxiety, 3% had moderate or pronounced hopelessness, and 8% had moderate or severe depression. The prevalence of all three was highest in patients with cirrhosi
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- Author
- Nadja Østberg; Birgitte Gade Jacobsen; Mette Munk Lauridsen; Lea Ladegaard Grønkjær
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)